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NBC’s telecast of Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday “will have more than 14 car-related ads, which will take up nearly two dozen of the 70 30-second ad slots that carried an average sticker price of $3.5 million,” according to Petrecca & Horovitz of USA TODAY. Advertisers are “rolling out big-budget commercials to rival the splashiest of soft drink marketing.” Auto advertisers have “revealed high-octane commercials that feature celebrities such as Matthew Broderick and Jerry Seinfeld, as well as showing their autos doing extreme stunts -- including a Chevy Sonic skydiving and bungee jumping.” Hyundai, Lexus, General Motors, Audi and Volkswagen have released “full versions of ads online,&rdqu ...